[musictlk] JAWS And Kontakt
Dancing Dots
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Wed Jan 6 00:06:12 UTC 2010
OK, as promised, here's more information from the main tech support and
training specialist here at Dancing Dots, Bryan Smart.
...
SFZ is fine, if she wants to write all of the synth parameters by hand in
notepad.
There are format converters, but the Kontakt libraries are copy protected,
so you can't convert to SFZ from those. Awave and Extreme Sample Converter
are the most accessible converters, and both convert to SFZ from many other
formats like Gigga, Akai, Roland, E-Mu, etc.
SFZ also plays soundfonts. Those have some limitations, but they're good for
basic sampling.
...
One of our customers has sent me a document that details how to use SFZ. If
you would like a copy, E-mail me off-list using my info at DancingDots.com
account and I'll send it to you.
Again, I myself am not a sampling wizard by any means. Write directly to
support at DancingDots.com if you use CakeTalking and have an interest in
learning more about sfz. This is a fairly technical topic. You may want to
join our own list called ddots-l and connect with blind audio producers from
around the world. I know that a number of them have used sampling in their
own work.
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Bill
Bill McCann
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-----Original Message-----
From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Annabelle Susan Morison
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 9:35 AM
To: 'NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [musictlk] JAWS And Kontakt
So what would be a better way for me to work with and create .nki, .nkb,
.nkm, .ewi, and .ews files?
-----Original Message-----
From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Cameron
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 5:26 PM
To: 'NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [musictlk] JAWS And Kontakt
Hi. I don't believe so. That is one reason we don't have access to the
east west or native instruments virtual instruments. Which is a shame
because some of them are fantastic.
Cameron.
-----Original Message-----
From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Sarah alawami
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 3:42 PM
To: 'NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [musictlk] JAWS And Kontakt
Would hotspots work in this case? I don't use that contact player but that's
just a suggestion.
Take care.
-----Original Message-----
From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Annabelle Susan Morison
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:24 AM
To: musictlk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [musictlk] JAWS And Kontakt
Hi, my name is Annabelle Morison, but you can just call me Annabelle.
I am a blind young woman who is a former student of Lane Community College
in Eugene, Oregon. I studied to become an audio engineer, producer, and
sound designer. Within six years, from September 2003 to June 2009, I took
Music fundamentals, Music theory 1, Sight Reading and Ear Training 1,
Keyboard Skills 1, Individual Piano Lessons, Jazz Theory, Music Technology
MIDI-Audio 1, Music Technology MIDI-Audio 2, Music Technology MIDI-Audio
Independent Study 1, Music Technology MIDI-Audio Independent Study 2, Music
Technology MIDI-Audio Independent Study 3, Music Technology MIDI-Audio
Independent Study 4, Audio Engineering 1, Audio Engineering 2, Audio
Engineering 3, and Audio Production. My studies culminated in straight A's,
and winning an award for Special Outstanding Achievement in Music
Technology. Since my career will be based around making virtual instruments
and sample packs, I'd like to find out, how would a blind person like me
make virtual instruments in Kontakt? In other words, how would I be able to
drag all the samples of any instrument into the Kontakt interface, then map
each note across an entire keyboard? Also, how would I save the finished
instrument as an .nki, .nkb, or .nkm file? Would I have to have help from
someone who can
> see? On some of the buttons and controls in Kontakt, JAWS 10.0 has a
> hard
time reading the screens. Since a lot of the buttons and controls are based
on bitmap images rather than text, I'm beginning to realize that JAWS
doesn't have the ability to read Bitmap image-based buttons and controls.
So, I was wondering if there's a series of scripts for all the buttons and
controls that would otherwise be accessed by sighted customers. I have a few
companies that you could contact, to ask about any further information on
how to make Kontakt work with JAWS. You could contact Yes Accesible in
Monrovia, California at 1-626-358-5750. You could contact Freedom Scientific
in Saint Petersburg, Florida at 1-727-803-8600. You can also contact T&T
Consultancy in England at +44
> 178-264-4141. You can also contact Raised Bar LTD, also in England, at
> +44 182-771-9822. If you have any further information or questions for
> +me,
please feel free to Email me
> at any time, as I check my Emails several times each day.
> Thank you so much,
> Annabelle
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P.S.: Here are the specifications of my computer.
Computer: Laptop
Machine Type: MusicProXPC
Serial Number: TW7TFCCCB8170073
Internal Soundcard: Realtek HD Audio
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
Engine: 32Bit Multiprocessor
CPU Speed: 2.5GHZ
RAM: 4GB
Internal Hard Drive: 250GB
External Hard Drive: 1TB
Audio Interface: MOTU 896HD
Mixing Machine: Radikal Technologies SAC2K
MIDI Device: Roland Fantom XR
Operating System: Windows XP
Version: Professional 2002 with Service Pack 3
Screenreader: JAWS 10.0.1167U
Digital Audio Workstation: Cakewalk Sonar 8.3.1 Producer Edition
Adaptive Technology: Caketalking 8 For Sonar 8
Sampler Software: Kontakt 4 (Standalone and VST)
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